what is /entrophy ?

[Daniel Bye]

On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 12:52:52PM +0100, Gert Cuykens wrote:
> what is /entrophy ? can i delete it ? 

It is used to store entropy to reseed the random number generator at
boot time.

If it really is in your way there, then you can put it elsewhere by 
setting entropy_file in /etc/rc.conf.

> also can i delete /python.core ?

Yes.  It is the remnants of a crashed python process.  If you're not
interested in debugging it, you may as well get rid.

> what about /COPYRIGHT :P

Why bother?  It's only using one inode, and occupies very little disk
space.  But if it offends, then sure, remove it.  It'll come back when
you upgrade anyway.

> you just had to put it in the / dont you :) whats wrong with /tmp :P

They're not "temporary" files.  /tmp is for storing session data, etc,
that will not be required after reboot.  The whole point of the entropy
file is to store entropy across a reboot.  COPYRIGHT should be somewhere
easy to find - where's easier to find than /?

And /usr/compat is where the compatibility layers live.  If you use any
ports that depend on Linux, then they will want this stuff intact.  If
you don't use any ports that expect to be run on Linux, it'll probably 
be empty.

Dan

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